This is a "Not all conservatives are Nazis, but all Nazis are conservative" distinction.
Poillevre might not actually goosestep and wear a snappy-looking black Hugo Boss uniform and make undesirable people into soap while stealing their gold teeth, but people who do those things vote for Poillevre and give him money.
Conversely, people who vote for Singh...don't.
I'm not voting for the conservatives until I hear full-throated rejection of bigoted policies, and right now, all I hear is bitching about "woke this" and "DEI that".
The main reason Trudeau abandoned the attempt is that any method that would offer better representation for voters would ensure no more Liberal majorities with ~35% of the vote.
That's it. He had a majority in parliament. He could have rammed it through. Instead, he assigned his most junior minister to the portfolio and let it die in committee. Constrast it with buying the TMX pipeline, which happened lickety-split.
Winning the popular vote is vanishing rare in Canada, but curiously we've had a number of Liberal and Conservative majority governments with weak pluralities. Neither the LPC nor the CPC will change a system that benefits them, but if I were the NDP, I'd make common cause with the BQ and Greens and, if I won, I'd ram PR through on day two.
I'm reminded of Trump's meltdown when Biden dropped out.
I hope the result is better this time, and I hope the Liberals and/or NDP learn the lesson that the Harris campaign utterly failed to: that when the problem is an unpopular incumbent, you don't say we're going to keep doing what the incumbent was going.
Just to remind everyone: Layton pulled this same stunt, toppling Martin's government.
The result was the loss of a number of progressive initiatives Martin's people were working on, the election of fucking Stephen Harper and the most conservative Canadian political landscape since Borden. Science was suppressed, lslamophobia went from being a dogwhistle to a bullhorn, we narrowly avoided economic catastrophy. Harper even fucked with the Census in an attempt to remake Canada.
A lot of dippers really idolized Layton, but honestly he was a shameless opportunist and I don't forgive him for giving us almost a decade of Harper.
Not sure if you're sarcastic, but just in case: they're hunting with dogs. The idea is that you loose a coyote or something you want your dogs to hunt, then you sic your dogs on it, so that they learn how to hunt (and corner, and, in most cases, maul) the coyote.
I'm waiting to see what the crypto kickback to Trump is.